Qualcomm Cyber Security Engineer Principal 

United States, California, San Diego 

114697848

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > Cyber Security Engineering

Addresses the requirement for engineering practitioners in cybersecurity functions. Protects vital electronic systems and data from attack, as well as outsmarting and responding appropriately to sophisticated cyber-attacks. Maintains and applies working knowledge of industry standard cybersecurity frameworks and standards to analyze and prioritize cybersecurity risks across the enterprise and recommend treatment options. Researches attempted or successful efforts to compromise application, system, network or data security and designs countermeasures. Identifies, designs, implements, executes and assesses technical and procedural capabilities to effectively identify, prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats which threaten company electronic information, devices, applications, and data.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.

High school diploma or equivalent and 8+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 40 lbs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• Familiarity with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

• 2+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Cybersecurity-relevant certifications.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applies expert knowledge in one or more security-related areas (e.g., cryptography, hacker exploits, reverse engineering, etc.) to act as a technical lead on large projects/programs and ensures they are driven to completion.

• Leads a team to ensure that complex security risks and vulnerabilities are identified, understood, and prioritized; works with other teams to resolve issues and execute mitigation strategy.

• Stays up-to-date on latest trends to prevent potential attacks and gains buy-in from other areas to promote the adoption of new technologies and methods.

• Leverages expertise when conducting root cause analyses to find the cause of highly complex security issues in products that may involve multiple groups or processes. Presents findings to critical senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Proactively identifies security risks to existing systems and infrastructure, and discusses risks with senior leadership outside of project team to construct solutions.

• Reviews technical documentation for large projects before publication and provides feedback as needed. Presents complicated technical information to senior leadership (e.g., Sr. Director and above).

• Considers all aspects as lead of a design by determining which teams should get involved and which tests need to be conducted, reviewing risk areas and impact, and highlighting the right set of issues to share with senior leadership and the entire team.

• Collaborates with other Engineers to prioritize and address escalations that impact a large number of customers/stakeholders in order to create and carry out solutions that meet security requirements, updates senior leadership about critical security issues, and addresses and communicates about highly complex, security-related issues.

• Meets with high-priority and/or high-profile project teams and business stakeholders to identify security requirements as an industry expert, and makes recommendations based on the configurations, systems, and devices impacted by proposed enhancements or upgrades.

• Engages with business partners cross-functionally (e.g., testing group, product group, customers) to develop and execute a plan and system design for a large initiative.

• Leads high-risk security architecture reviews with cross-functional project members and business stakeholders to discuss security risks and identify additional changes to security architecture diagrams.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with no supervision.

• Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

• Using deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Exercising exceptional creativity is needed to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/ processes without established objectives or known parameters.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$172,500.00 - $258,500.00